An Apple A Day

Well that might get a little expensive if you are talking a certain Macintosh Apple. You know, the silicon type. Following through with the promise I made myself last Tuesday, I placed the order today. 

So why did I go for the 2.93GHz Quad-Core i7  vs the 3.2GHz i3 and 3.6GHz i5. I am not going to sit here and tell you is is the hyper-threading technology but I will tell you it is the latest Mac Intel technology available on the iMac.

Ok whats with the hyper-threading mumbo-jumbo? Well, it is a technology developed by Intel so that a single processor virtually acts like two 2 to 4 and 4 to 8 and so on. Right now the i7 Quad-core with HT acts as though it is eight processors. Well, not really. The software has to be specifically written to use the expanded functionality of the chip. Sl why did I go for it. This will be the first time in the 25+ years I have been buying hardware where I am ahead of the power curve. Newer versions of software I would expect to be written to harness the extra horsepower in the i7 chip. The i7 chip is designed with such higher efficiency than the i5 that the slower clock speed of 2.93 GHz of the i7 performs at a higher speed than the 3.6GHz i5. That's why!

As far as memory, I selected 2 4GB 1333MHz chips rather than 4 sets of 2GB to allow me to expand to 16GB with more cost effective (read cheaper than Apple) 4GB chips. So why did I go with a 1TB internal drive? My philosophy is to use the internal drive for working files and once completed move them off to the Drobo or one of the other external drives.

Anyhow by October 28th, I will be spending some quality time setting up this bad boy.

Take care... Doug